A comparative history of social responses to climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain / the Social Learning Group.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Social Learning Group, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Social Learning Group.

Series:

Politics, science, and the environment.

Politics, science, and the environment

Learning to manage global environmental risks ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy.

Environmental management.

Global environmental change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (403 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This long-awaited two-volume book examines how the interplay of ideas and actions applied to environmental problems has laid the foundations for global environmental management. It looks at how ideas, interests, and institutions affect management practice; how management capabilities in other areas affect the ability to deal with specific environmental issues; and how learning affects society's approach to the global environment.The book focuses on efforts to deal with climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain from 1957 (The International Geophysical Year) through 1992 (the UN Conference on Environment and Development). The settings include Canada, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, the former Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and international environmental organizations. Topics include problem framing, agenda setting, issue attention, risk assessment, monitoring, option assessment, goal and strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation. Volume 1 provides an overview of the project, of global environmental management in general, and of the three central environmental issues studied; it also contains the individual country studies. Volume 2 contains the management function studies and the book's conclusion.Authors in the set includeJeannine Cavender-Bares, William C. Clark, Ellis Cowling, Nancy M. Dickson, Gerda Dinkelman, Rodney Dobell, Renate Ell, Adam Fenech, Alexander Ginzburg, Elena Goncharova, Peter Haas, Eva Hizsnyik, Michael Huber, Peter Hughes, Jill Jager, Marc Levy, Angela Liberatore, Diana Liverman, Justin Longo, David McCabe, Donald Munton, Elena Nikitina, Karen O'Brien, Edward Parson, Vladimir Pisarev, Ruud Pleune, Miranda Schreurs, Simon Shackley, Peter Simmons, Heather Smith, Vassily Sokolov, Ferenc L. Toth, Jeroen van der Sluijs, Josee van Eijndhoven, Claire Waterton, Cor Worrell, and Brian Wynne.More information is available from the SLG web site.

Contents:

v. 1. A comparative history of social responses to climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain

v. 2. A functional analysis of social responses to climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain.

1. Overview

2. Studies of arenas.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9786612100321

9780262308670

0262308673

9781282100329

1282100327

9780262284011

0262284014

9780585387628

0585387621

OCLC:

463007148